UTAH EDUCATION NETWORK
Professional Development Newsletter January 22nd-26th
Welcome!
Classes are in full swing, and our UEN Professional Development Team would love to come out and share with your school. Check out more information below!
In this week's newsletter, you will find:
- UENVideo with Teacher Tips and UOSL Shorts
- UEN Homeroom Podcast: New episode on Location and Digital Equity
- Course Spotlight on Creative Google Skills
- eMedia Hub Spotlight: Personalized, Competency-Based Learning
- Upcoming Professional Development opportunities from UCET, UELMA, UCTM, and Edcamps
- Resource Share: UEN Teacher Tips
Better Discussions, Better Engagement | UEN Teacher Tips
Online discussions can be a secret weapon for creating engaging lessons. In this video, Dani shares practical tips to ignite student engagement, encourage participation and deepen understanding.
Have you heard of UEN’s #PreschoolPath?
This online early learning library is a collection of website resources from the Utah Education Network and key partners supporting Utah students' school readiness. Check it out!
Ready for a daily dose of curiosity? Check out Wonderopolis in Utah’s Online School Library.
Ready for a daily dose of curiosity? Check out Wonderopolis in Utah’s Online School Library.
In this episode of UEN Homeroom, Dani and Matt discuss the impact of geographic location on access to technology and the internet in Utah. Listen now!
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Participants will explore strategies for using the Google For Education Suite creatively in their classrooms. Participants will explore how to use Google For Education Suite tools such as Google Sites, Docs, Sheets, Forms, Earth, and Slides and create a unit learning hub for their classroom. The course will focus on developing students’ skill sets in these tools and best practices for classroom collaboration, student choice, and assessment.
This course, along with many others, will run in our Spring B semester starting March 7th.
What is Personalized, Competency-Based Learning (PCBL)?
Personalized, competency based learning (PCBL) empowers students in developing the knowledge, skills, and dispositions of Utah’s Portrait of a Graduate. To create PCBL environments, educators:
- Cultivate a culture of learning through communities committed to creating the conditions and instructional practices that allow each learner to find their pathway to success.
- Foster learner agency through empowering students in setting goals, co-creating learning experiences and self-assessing allowing them to demonstrate their learning.
- Create conditions and provide feedback for students to demonstrate competency through multiple forms of assessments while progressing through learning.
- Provide appropriate and timely customized supports to engage students and ensure equitable access to high quality instruction.
- Develop social emotional learning skills to support students collaborating, overcoming challenges, and achieving success in multiple settings.
The Utah State Board of Education is continuing the innovation for PCBL with the release of the Utah’s PCBL Framework and continuation of the PCBL Grant Programs.
Check out recent professional development events around Utah
UEN Trainer Hosting #UTedchat This Week
New Teacher Fellows Podcast
Join UEN Trainer Kayla Towner and the team at the Teacher Fellows for amazing conversations about education. Listen in at the following link.
UEN at South Sanpete School District
Utah Council of Teachers of Mathematics - January 30th-31st
EdcampUtah - February 24th
Utah Council of Teachers of English - February 2nd
UCET / UELMA 2024 - March 19th-20th
UEN Teacher Tips are a video and article series that provides solutions to some of the common problems educators have in their classroom. Topics range from having better discussions to connecting with other educators, Universal Design for Learning to ways to try out AI tools. UEN trainers explore a variety of tools and approaches that could best meet the needs of educators around the state. Check out a few recent Teacher Tips below:
- Better Discussions, Better Engagement
- Get Ready for UCET/UELMA 24 with UEN Tools
- UDL: Flexible Expression of Learning (and Instruction!)
- Utilizing Student-Generated Resource Banks
- Three Ways to Ensure All Students Have a Chance to Answer Content Area Questions
UEN Teacher Tips also has a mailing list that you can subscribe to at the link below!
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UEN provides professional development for educators across the state of Utah.